Meet "IndictEvolution," the likely online persona of the alleged fertility clinic suicide bomber.
IndictEvolution was not a "right-wing Christian", rather he believed in a niche secular philosophy called "Efilism" which calls for extinction of all life to eliminate suffering.
This is not the first Redditor with this anti-god hyper-rational ideology who tried to hurt others. Nicholas Roske tried to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh and he was driven by a similar belief set.
The ideology of Efilism has roots in antinatalism (which believes procreation is a fundamental evil) but goes a step beyond, calling for the mass extinction of all life on Earth.
The core value of this ideology is the hyper-rationalization of "nothing consents to existence"
BREAKING: The University of Zurich has been using AI bots to secretly manipulate Redditors since November 2024.
The scariest part?
The bots were 6 times more likely to change the minds of Redditors than the baseline, often by leveraging misinformation.
More below🧵
The paper, innocuously titled "Can AI change your view?" details the process researchers from the University of Zurich used to make AI interact on Reddit.
This was done in secret, without informing the users or the moderators.
2 days ago, the mods of r/changemyview revealed the study and released usernames of 13 bots who had been created by the study.
I queried my server for the usernames and found, over the course of just a few months, the bots had written close to 1500 comments.